Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (13 November 1856-5 October 1941) was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1 June 1916 to 13 February 1939, succeeding Joseph Rucker Lamar and preceding William O. Douglas.

Biography
Louis Dembitz Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on 13 November 1856 to Bohemian Jewish immigrant parents. He was a brilliant law student and was recognized as the student with the highest academic average in the history of Harvard University when he graduated in 1878. Brandeis became the first Jewish US Supreme Court justice in 1916, and he brought progressive rationalism to the supreme Court; this is memorialized with the phrase "Brandeis brief", describing a submission to a court containing economic, statistical, and sociological arguments. He had a strong populist and anti-corporate bent which earned him the enmity of big business, and he was considered to be a militant crusader for social justice. Brandeis retired from the Supreme Court in 1939 and died two years later.